Sentences with phrase «justification for killing»

* This may come as a shock, but Glenn Greenwald is troubled by the Obama administration's legal justification for killing American citizens overseas via drone.

How does Bryan's justification for killing people to rescue his daughter compare to Murad's desire for revenge?

Playwright John Guare sums up that aspect succinctly: «if I had written a book that one person used as justification for killing somebody I'd think, «that's crazy.»

However, an appended statement signed by 44 scientists from 18 countries disputed the notion that there is a scientific justification for killing whales.

There is no justification for killing animals for «sport», he's already dragging Arsenal down, and now he's proving what an unethical piece of scum he is.

It seems confusing that a religion, any religion would be justification for killing, killing any living thing.

But in that case why did it not yield to the judgment that convenience, or the avoidance of embarrassment, could not possibly be taken as the justification for killing any other human being?

But merely to ask them is to suggest how easily the justification for killing can be extended to an ever - widening category of eligible candidates - and how easily the line between the voluntary and the involuntary can be erased.

So your argument is that something terrible sometimes happens and that's justification for killing someone.

in the new testament, no justification for killing is given anywhere.

By the way, pointing to people killed during pointless wars that past and current presidents and congress put soldiers into is not justification for killing babies (or you can use the euphemism «abortion»).

The researchers avoided asking questions about some of the more broadly accepted justifications for killing animals, like doing so for food.

Brown gave Malthusian, «small - is - beautiful» justifications for killing nuclear plants.

Not exact matches

A revised edition of one of the most important works on Dietrich Bon hoeffer's early life and writings, with a suggestive effort to reconstruct from his unfinished Ethics his justification for joining the resistance effort to kill Hitler.

You will no doubt use «thou shalt not kill» as justification for being against abortion.

If only one of those over 1,000 prisoners, kill just one Israeli or other human being then the justification for this swap goes out the window.

There is simply no justification for destroying property or killing people in the name of religion.

I was somewhat inebriated by the second period but from what I remember the penalty killing sucked so I'm not sure that's a good justification for a guy playing 16 + minutes.

From «the dictator is killing his own people» to the «regime is using chemical weapons» to the need to establish «No Fly Zones» to safeguard «refugees fleeing Assad»... propaganda has been liberally used to build the justification for foreign military intervention.

Every Palestinian rocket is a justification for Israel to clamp down harder on Gaza and the Palestinians (who are again increasingly being equated with Hamas militants in global public opinion, for they support their killing of Israeli innocents).

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Along the way, many women are killed (one torn apart like a stone crab), almost all of them naked at the moment of their destruction, and a lot of mumbo - jumbo about nothing much at all is spewed as the justification for it.

Unless it is an emergency, like you are 1000 miles from any help and your dog is dying a painful death and you feel the only humane way is to kill your dog immediately, then there's no moral, behavioral or legal justification for you to kill your own dog yourself.

The public needs to let Port Authority know loud and clear we're not as stupid as they think and won't buy their concocted justification for needlessly killing these animals.»

Perhaps the strangest reporting I've seen only touches on the Smithsonian / USFWS paper — using it as further justification for a hatchet job (the sort of irresponsible work that brings to mind, with almost a wistfulness — if only for a moment — Mitt Romney's plan to cut PBS funding altogether) on cat advocates in general, and L.A.'s Stray Cat Alliance in particular — as Los Angeles pushes to become the country's largest «no - kill» city.

Enormous scale might not be a reasonable justification for adolescent orgy paintings, but it seems to work for Lisa Yuskavage, and for some reason it worked for Jim Herbert's previous show at English Kills.

As justification for the sudden decision, Akbank Sanat claimed that «the tragic incidents in Ankara [a car - bombing on February 17 that killed 29 people] are very fresh in people's memories.

One of the justifications the Japanese whaling industry gives for violating the international ban on whaling is that killing minke whales will help larger baleen whales recover.

So, you can face charges for attempted murder when you have the specific intent to kill another person without lawful justification and take a substantial step in committing the crime.

The circumstances where it is legal for one person to intentionally kill another are highly limited in all states: using Washington terminology, you must be justified, and «because he asked me to» is not an legal justification.

If there's any honest justification at all for killing the jack, I haven't heard it yet.